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Chiropractic Billing

Chiropractic billing is
different in many respects than much other medical insurance
billing. The chiropractor has an established client base that is
returning for treatment on a regular basis. From strictly a
billing standpoint this means many things.

Specialties
such as chiropractic with returning patients are not entering as
many new patients into their computer software as say an eye
doctor. The codes a chiropractor are using for billing are not
as involved as say a family doctor. Here's more information on
chiropractic CPT codes.

The beginning chiropractic provider will have to make
many decisions in starting their business as to whether or not they
will accept insurance, participate with the insurance companies or
to become a strictly cash practice. Most would like to work for
cash only, but the reality is that those patients who are covered by
insurance prefer to go to a provider who does participate and will
bill their insurance out.
Here is more information on participating with insurance
carriers and how it affects your chiropractic billing.

If the chiropractic provider decides to participate with the insurance
companies common to their area, they must now become credentialed
with that carrier. Here
is more information of credentialing.

Chiropractic insurance
billing is done on red and white CMS 1500
forms. These forms must be completed in black ink as many insurance
companies scan the forms. Some companies require that the
claim forms are typed or generated from a computer if not sent
electronically. Here is more information on completing these forms
correctly. If the forms are not
completed correctly, they most likely will be denied payment.

When you run
into questions on your chiropractic billing, you can often find
the answers you need at a medical billing forum. If someone hasn't
already asked your question, you can post it yourself and get
notified when anyone posts answers to your questions. You can
sign up to access our medical billing forum
here.

Quite often as the practice grows, the provider finds
that the income is not keeping up with the growth of the business.
He or she is seeing more and more patients and not bringing
in as much income as should be coming in for the number of patients
seen.

The problem with this is that as the practice
grows, it becomes more difficult to keep up with
all the required tasks of authorizations, referrals and insurance billing. It takes time to
check to make sure he or she is getting paid for all the visits and
to deal with the problems that arise with insurance billing.
It is not unusual to be on the telephone for 40 minutes or
longer trying to straighten out an insurance issue when you are doing insurance billing.

If
you want to make sure you are getting paid for all your visits, you
must have good systems in place. You need a system for billing out
all your insurance and patient bills, a system for tracking them,
and the time to take care of all this. If you no longer
have that time to devote to the insurance billing, you need to hire
someone who will take care of this process for you. For more
information on setting up good systems that work, check out our new
book Chiropractic Billing Made Easy.

We
bill for many chiropractors in several states. If you are interested in contacting us about submitting and tracking your insurance claims call Alice or Michele at 1-800-490-4299